Jia Lei didn't dare to look at the amazing red, only to see Jia Yijia first take out a piece of red rope from his arms and carefully tie one end to the ginseng and the other end to the branch, and then breathe a sigh of relief.

"As the old saying goes, ginseng has spirituality, and when digging ginseng, you must tie it with a red rope, otherwise people will run away from the meeting. Jia Yijia turned back to Jia Lei and said.

"I've heard of that. Jia Lei hurriedly nodded and said.

"The best time to dig ginseng is in August and September, when the ginseng seeds have matured, the color is bright red like a chicken kidney, especially conspicuous, a bit like a hammer, the folk call "red hammer market", this is the golden season of ginseng picking. The ground is hard and hard to dig in winter, I am here for a temporary idea, and I haven't paid homage to the head of the staff yet!" Jia Yijia said.

It's a bit out of line, but there are always people who accidentally see ginseng while hunting, so you can actually pick ginseng without worshipping it.

"Did you go to greet my eldest grandfather before you went out?" Jia Lei asked.

"Of course I went, not to mention such a big thing as going up to the mountains to hunt, even if I usually go to say hello to my grandfather every day. Have you forgotten that we live in the same hospital?" Jia Yijia said.

"Then you don't break the rules, isn't the eldest lady the leader of our old Jia family. Jia Lei said that all the old people love to tell their grandchildren that they were back then, Jia Lei had no shortage of these old men in his last life, and he had to recall the courage of the year over and over again. He also knows a rough idea of these rules!

"Okay, then I can move on to the next step!" Jia Yijia finished speaking, he took out a small cloth bag from his bag, opened it, took out three incense sticks from it and lit them with matches, prayed in his mouth for a while, and then inserted them in front of the ginseng, and then knelt down and kowtowed to the ginseng.

"Ginseng is spiritual, so before digging it, the whole team should bow down to it and pray for it to give it a high-quality ginseng. Jia Qijia turned around and said, Jia Lei nodded quickly.

"Got it!" Jia Lei said, he said so, but if he really asked Jia Lei to kowtow to a ginseng, he wouldn't do it.

"That's it for the ceremony, and now we can dig ginseng. Jia Qijia said, Jia Lei and Dasha's eyes immediately lit up.

"How hard the soil is this winter, let me and Dasha do this kind of soil digging work, Dasha has to have strength. Jia Lei hurriedly said that he had a rare opportunity to say that he would also experience it himself.

"I'm coming, I'm coming! No wonder my uncle had to bring a hoe when he went out today, and I still thought that I didn't need to farm this winter!" Dasha finished and picked up the hoe that was put aside and walked over.

"Drop it! How can ginseng be dug with a hoe, many people who don't know how to do it like you find ginseng and dig it indiscriminately, and all the good ginseng will be dug up! If you dig ginseng so that you don't have arms and legs, you won't be able to sell it at a good price, and you will lose the medicinal properties of ginseng. Jia Qijia hurriedly said, in case a big fool of a hoe cut down the ginseng, he would have no place to cry.

"What do you use with a hoe? Jia Lei stomped the ground under his feet and asked.

"With these, this is our special thing for ginseng pickers. Jia Qijia pointed to the cloth bag he had just taken out.

"What are these things?" asked Jia Lei, looking at Bao Liqi's strange tools.

"This is a deer bone chisel, a rope stick, a knife, an axe, an oilcloth...... Jia Qijia introduced Jia Yiyi one by one, Jia Lei listened carefully, he really felt that these things could be sent directly to the Folk Museum.

"How do you use these things?" asked Jia Lei.

"Don't worry about these first, the two of you will help me pull out all the grass around the ginseng first!" Jia Qijia pointed at Dasha and said, since you want to work so much, let them do it.

"Okay, I'll pull it out!" Jia Lei heard that there was work to do and immediately rushed over happily, and Dasha also grinned and squatted down.

With the efforts of Jia Lei and Dasha, in less than ten minutes, there was no grass growing in a radius of 50 centimeters where the ginseng was located.

"We finished pulling it out, and I picked up all the stones on it. Jia Lei walked over with a hand covered with dirt and said.

"Well done! I should reward you. After Jia Qijia finished speaking, she walked over to the ginseng and carefully picked the dried ginseng fruit.

"This ginseng fruit is a good thing, give you two!" Jia Qijia said as he carefully plucked three ginseng fruits from the top and put them in Jia Lei's palm, which had been wiped clean.

"Eat it, the ginseng fruit tastes good!" Jia Qijia said, Jia Lei immediately twisted one and put it in his mouth when he heard it.

"It's a little sour and a little sweet, it's really delicious!" Jia Lei tasted a ginseng seed and said, he thought it was delicious and threw another one into his mouth.

"Give me a grain to taste?" Dasha suddenly looked at Jia Lei pitifully and said.

"This ...... There is only one left, which is not enough for you to stuff your teeth......" Jia Lei said.

"It's okay! I'll just taste it!" Dasha finished speaking, and without waiting for Jia Lei to agree, he reached out and picked up the last ginseng seed and threw it into his mouth.

"Hmm......" Jia Lei looked at his empty palms and felt lost, he really didn't know what to say.

"What's that...... How does the ginseng fruit taste?" Jia Lei finally held back a sentence.

"Delicious...... It's delicious!" Dasha said, nodding.

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After Jia Lei and Dasha finished eating the ginseng fruit, they squatted on the side to watch Jia Qi's family dig ginseng, only to see that Jia Qi's family first used their hands to pick up the soil of the ginseng root, carefully exposed the ginseng root, and then judged the underground ginseng trend according to experience.

Jia Lei watched Jia Qijia use a mallet needle to start digging about 40CM away from the ginseng, and finally dug a deep circle with the ginseng as the center, which was about 40 centimeters deep.

"Uncle Lobby, why are you digging such a big circle? Why don't you dig next to ginseng? Jia Lei asked.

"No, it's easy to dig from the top down to cut the ginseng mustache! For ginseng of the same size, the price of the whole ginseng must be twice as expensive as the price of the ginseng must be broken!" Jia Qijia said, Jia Lei thought about it, as if what he said on the Internet in his previous life.

"I didn't expect it to take so much effort to dig out the ginseng whiskers!" Jia Lei said.

After digging this ditch, Jia Qijia dug little by little along the ginseng roots, and just bit by little from the outside of the garden to the inside, and finally he dug up the soil around the ginseng body with a small deer bone drill, and the ginseng whiskers were thin and numerous, and this process took more than four hours.

During this period, of course, Jia Lei and Dasha did not have the patience to squat to the side and watch, these two people were looking around in the nearby forest like chicken blood, hoping that they would also be able to find a ginseng.

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"I shouldn't be! I'm a reborn hero, gambling on stones must have imperial green, buy lottery tickets and win the lottery, go to the sea to catch pearls and go up the mountain to dig ginseng! I've been looking for almost three hours, why don't I even have a single hair?" Jia Lei panted and leaned against a pine tree and thought, he still held a handful of pine nuts in his hand, this was his only harvest.

"Jia Lei, Jia Lei, I seem to have found ginseng!" Dasha suddenly shouted loudly in a bush more than 100 meters away, and two pheasants jumped out and ran away in fright.

"It's really fake, you shouldn't admit it, right?" Jia Lei asked as he walked.

"I can't be wrong! I've already tasted it, and the ginseng seeds taste the same!" Dasha said loudly, and Jia Lei heard the footsteps here first paused, and then immediately ran quickly.

"You big fool, don't you know that you can't eat things on the mountain, what if you admit that it is poisonous?" Jia Lei shouted angrily, and when Jia Qijia heard this, he quickly put down the ginseng he was about to finish digging and ran over.

"Is this ginseng?" Jia Lei asked with a complicated mood pointing to a bare branch, and the ginseng fruit made Dasha pick only the roots and whiskers.

"Where will I see where the fruit will come from?" said the Jazis.

"The fruit is gone, let Dasha eat it!" Jia Lei said dejectedly.

"Look! These are the ones I left for Jia Lei. Dasha suddenly stretched out his hand and said, only to see that there were still three ginseng seeds left in his palm.

"That's right, I'll taste it!" Jia Qijia said and chewed half of the fruit carefully.

"That's right! it's ginseng!" said Jazi, and then he crouched down to look at the withered leaves.

"Two slaps! Wupinye, about 5 or 6 years old!" Jia Qijia said, he could still see this.

"What should we do? What are we going to do?" Jia Lei asked, rubbing his hands, and Dasha also looked at Jia Qi's family anxiously.

"You're waiting for me for an hour, and when I dig out my ginseng, I'll dig it for you. Jia Qijia said.

"That's too long, and you may not be able to finish digging after dark!" Jia Lei said anxiously.

"That's it, let's just dig it ourselves!" Dasha said quickly.

Being able to dig up a ginseng by himself is the dream of almost all men who have watched martial arts and TV dramas! Dasha also wants to be able to dig a ginseng by himself, and then he can brag about it to his relatives and friends when he returns home.

"You dig it yourself, and if you dig up the ginseng whiskers, it's worthless, and this ginseng can be sold for seven, eight, or even tens of thousands! If it's in good condition, it can be sold for one or two thousand yuan more!" Jia Qijia said.

"Sell, we don't sell, isn't it a big fool?" Jia Lei turned around and asked Dasha, after all, he found the ginseng.

"Yes, we don't sell it, I'm going to take it back and make ginseng wine for my dad." Dasha said.

"Since you eat it yourself, then you can dig it yourself! Jia Qijia said.

Jia Lei and Dasha immediately jumped up happily and ran over to get all kinds of tools!

"Do you remember the steps I just played when I dug up ginseng?" Jia Qijia asked worriedly.

"Remember, remember, pull the weeds first......" Dasha said.

"Then dig a circle on the side!" Jia Lei hurriedly replied.

"The circle should be deep, dig from the outside in!" Dasha said.

"Use a small fiber to remove the soil in the middle of the roots like a tooth pick, and then use a small brush to brush off all the soil on your life. Jia Lei said.

"No! You forgot to tie the red thread!" said the Jazis.

Jia Lei immediately went to get the red line, and Jia Qi's family helped the two of them carefully tie the four corners and fix them on the branches.

"In addition to the role of superstition, this red line can also support the body of ginseng, otherwise in the end, the ginseng will fall without the support of the land, and the ginseng will break!" Jia Qijia said, anyway, it is a little ginseng worth 18,000 yuan, let Jia Lei and Dasha dig and play!

He has a particularly important thing to do!

"Hand over the remaining two ginseng seeds. The Jazie family stretched out their hands and said.

"Do you want to eat it too?" Dasha generously handed over the ginseng seeds.

"I don't eat it. There is a rule for digging ginseng, after the ginseng is dug up, the soil should be filled back into the pit, and if there are ginseng seeds, you must plant ginseng seeds on it, so that maybe in a few years a new ginseng plant will grow in this place!" said Jia Qijia.

The ginseng in the Northeast has not been dug up for thousands of years, which has a lot to do with this feudal superstitious old rules of sustainable development!